On Monday 05 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Heracles suggested a clean reinstall of all. How does one do that from an > already installed Debian? I'd do it from the current Debian as that has > internet access via bigpond. I have just command line only. > Still I'd prefer to recover and learn more. > > > Upgrading the wifes PC from an old Debian to etch using dist-upgrade has > > really busted it. xserver-xorg won't install as it depends on x11-common > > but that won't install as I get a dpkg "error processing xmem (--remove)" > > during the post removal script. I have tried also just 'apt-get -f > > install' and I get the same error. > > > > I have tried to remove xmem using dpkg --force-all and various other > > options to dpkg but it still wont work. At this stage I think I need to > > totally remove X11 stuff and reinstall it. > > > > Any help appreciated to recover from this.
Easy: 1) get server-install CD 2) install (small and quick) As Sonia posted, install the OS on 1 partition install /home on another. That way you can re-install without losing data. 3) apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (as appropriate xubuntu, kubuntu edubuntu) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
